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Police & Fire
DUI Driver Indicted In Crash That Killed Double Organ Transplant Survivor In NJ
A Delaware man was accused of driving drunk, speeding, and ignoring a red light in a crash that killed a woman in Atlantic County, authorities said. Kevin Wilson, 63, of New Castle, was indicted by a grand jury on Tuesday, Mar. 19 for first-degree aggravated manslaughter, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office said in a news release. The indictment came after a deadly crash in Buena Vista Township on Saturday, June 24, 2023. Ada Roman, 36, of Vineland, died after she was a passenger in a Honda Civic that was struck by a Lexus L46. The crash happened at the intersection of ro…
Police & Fire
Video Shows Drunk NJ Driver Plowing Sedan Into 5 Cars At Busy NY Intersection: Police
A 21-year-old New Jersey man ha been charged in connection with a six-car crash at a busy intersection in Westchester, NY, police said. Phillipsburg resident Angel Illesscas' blood alcohol content was nearly three times over the legal limit of .08% in the wreck at the intersection of Caryl Avenue and South Broadway on Saturday, Feb. 17, Yonkers police said. Surveillance footage captured Illesscas plowing his gray Honda sedan into several vehicles, damaging five cars in addition to his own. The collision also caused one of the cars to hit a utility pole, which damaged several electronics inc…
Police & Fire
NJ Priest Arrested For Drunk Driving, Stealing From Walmart Stepping Down: Officials
A New Jersey priest arrested for shoplifting and drunk driving is stepping down from his pulpit, Daily Voice has learned. Dawid Wejnerowski, the now-former priest of the St. Mary's Catholic Church in Alpha, had a blood alcohol level more than twice the legal limit when Pohatcong police pulled him over on suspicion of shoplifting from Walmart on Monday, Feb. 19 around 10:15 p.m., Police Chief Scott Robb said. Officers approached the priest's vehicle, pointed out to them by a Walmart employee in the store parking lot, but Wejnerowski backed the car out of a parking spot and drove off from the…
Police & Fire
Images Of 26 More Heroes Added To Port Authority PD Line-Of-Duty Death Memorial
The images of 26 Port Authority police officers who died in the line of duty before and after 9/11 were added to a striking memorial on the New Jersey side of the George Washington Bridge. The memorial at Port Authority Police Benevolent Association headquarters off East Palisade Avenue in Englewood Cliffs originally was created to honor the 37 PAPD officers killed in the 9/11 terror attacks on America. They included K9 Sirius, whose handler put him into what was believed to be a safe place at the World Trade Center before the buildings fell. "At that time, we had what we believed to be ei…
Police & Fire
Driver High On Methadone Pleads Guilty In NJ Crash That Seriously Injured Woman
A drunk driver who was more than twice the legal limit and high on methadone when he caused a crash that seriously injured another motorist pleaded guilty to charges filed in connection with the Jersey Shore crash, authorities said. William Andujar, 52, of Whiting, on Monday, Dec. 18 pleaded guilty before Superior Court Judge Kimarie Rahill to aggravated assault and driving under the influence of alcohol, in connection with the Nov. 2, 2020 crash in Berkeley Township, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said. Andujar was heading west in a 2010 Honda CRV when he struck a 2003 H…
News
Drunken NJ Driver Admits Snapchatting At 156 MPH Before Fiery Wreck That Killed College Student
More than a year after a New York college student was killed in a fiery, drunk-driving crash in the region, the man responsible has formally confessed. Vasu Laroiya, 24, of Iselin, pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide in Albany County Court on Tuesday, Nov. 28, in the death of Katie Fisher. Laroiya admitted that he was Snapchatting while driving drunk at 156 miles per hour on I-87 in Colonie when he struck Fisher’s Honda Civic on the night of May 28, 2022. Fisher, a 22-year-old junior at the University at Albany, then struck a guardrail on the eastern shoulder, causing her car t…
Sports
WWE Hall Of Famer, NJ Native Tammy Sytch Gets 17 Years For Fatal DWI Crash
The sunny days have turned dark for former wrestling manager Tammy Lynn Sytch. The Monmouth County native, who achieved fame in the then-WWF as Sunny in the mid-1990s, was sentenced to 17 years in prison after pleading no contest to driving drunk and killing a 75-year-old man in Florida last year. She will also serve eight years of probation after she's released from prison, CBS affiliate WKMG-TV. Sytch, who was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2011, has had numerous brushes with the law since her wrestling career ended, including being arrested for six DWIs in a four-year span. …
Police & Fire
Charges Upgraded Against Teaneck Restaurant Manager In Double-Fatal DWI Crash
UPDATE: Authorities have upgraded charges against a Teaneck restaurant manager who they said was drunk when he slammed his speeding car into a tree, killing two of his passengers. Teddy Mejia, 32, originally was charged with death by auto following the horrific Oct. 21 crash that killed Rudy Rosales Escobar, 40, of Hasbrouck Heights, and Alexander Cosme Curruchich, 29, of Englewood. Investigators have since determined that Mejia was not only intoxicated but also speeding down Teaneck Road when his 2021 BMW M850i hit the tree – shearing off an entire limb – and rolled onto its roof near Bilt…
Police & Fire
Teresa Giudice Offers Cop Family Business Cards In Maserati Traffic Stop On Route 287 (
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Newly-released bodycam footage shows Teresa Giudice offering a police officer family business cards in a motor vehicle stop in a brand-new Maserati for drifting, weeks after her Mercedes Benz was stolen. The footage from the April 28 stop on Route 287 in Riverdale was released on YouTube by Drive Thru Tours. In the video, the officer explains to the "Real Housewives of New Jersey" star around 12:45 a.m. that she was going 55 mph, "a little slow" and drifting into another lane. "What state is the temp tag?" the office asks. "I just bought it. My car got stolen," she said referri…
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Of All Places For A DWI Crash: South Hackensack Police Nab Driver Outside HQ
South Hackensack police didn’t have far to bring a suspected drunk driver following a mid-afternoon rollover crash. Surveillance cameras outside their headquarters captured video of Linus P. Rodrigues, 48, of the Bronx swinging a 2009 Toyota RAV 4 onto Franklin Street at 2:15 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 24, Detective Sgt. James Donatello said. The Toyota hit a parked 1998 Buick Century, then rolled onto its side and slid about 20 feet, the sergeant said. South Hackensack firefighters extricated Rodrigues and turned him over to the Little Ferry First Aid Corps, Donatello said. Rodrigues – who had n…
News
Sheriff IDs NJ Woman Found Dead In Tractor-Trailer Outside MD Costco Distribution Center
New details have been released by the Frederick County Sheriff's Office after a woman's body was found dead inside the cab of a tractor-trailer over the weekend. Investigators say that Candice Thompson, 46, has been identified as the victim who was found inside Matthew Sidney Watley's truck after he was busted for allegedly getting behind the wheel while he was intoxicated. Both the driver and victim are from Sicklerville, New Jersey. Watley was charged with multiple counts of murder on Sunday after a curious case outside the Costco Distribution Center on Intercostal Drive in Monrovia. Th…
Lifestyle
Somerset County Dad Killed, Mom And Daughter Seriously Hurt As Drunk Driver Strikes Family Car
Support is on the rise for a Somerset County family whose lives were turned upside down after their vehicle was struck by a drunk driver, killing a beloved father while seriously injuring a devoted mother and teenage daughter. Cris, Ana, and Lucia Bolle of Bridgewater were heading to Vermont when their car was struck by a drunk driver on Tuesday afternoon, August 22, a GoFundMe launched for their support says. They were rushed to Albany Medical Center in New York, where Cris, a native of Argentina who received his Ph.D. in physics at Instituto Balseiro and completed post-doc work at Harvar…
Sports
Meet Yankees World Series Hero In Northern New Jersey
It was Game 4 of the 1996 World Series when Jim Leyritz achieved Yankee immortality. The slugger, whose three run-home run helped the Yankees come back from a 6-0 deficit and eventually win the World Series, will be at Bookends in Ridgewood on Thursday, Sept. 7. at 7 p.m. to sign copies of "The 20 Greatest Moments in New York Sports History From 1960 to Today." Leyritz also won a World Series with the Bombers in 1999. The book is written by famed New York sportswriters Todd Ehrlich and Gary Myers, who will also be at the signing. Leyritz's life off the diamond has not been easy. In 2…
Police & Fire
DUI Driver Sentenced For Crash That Killed Popular NJ Restaurant Owner
A repeat drunk-driving offender was sentenced to 12 years in New Jersey State Prison for a crash that killed a popular restaurant owner last September. Desmond Newberry, 45, of Marlton, was sentenced on Monday, June 19 for causing the death of Mount Laurel's Glenn Keen in the parking lot of Cucina Carini, the restaurant he owned, according to Burlington County Prosecutor LaChia L. Bradshaw. Newberry pleaded guilty earlier this year to aggravated manslaughter. The investigation began on Sept. 3, 2022, when officers from the Mount Laurel Police Department were dispatched to t…
Police & Fire
Lakewood Man, 21, Indicted In Fatal DWI Crash: Prosecutor
A 21-year-old man from Lakewood has been indicted in connection with a fatal crash in which the driver was traveling 90 mph, authorities said. Mordechai Berkowitz was charged with aggravated manslaughter and aggravated assault, according to Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer. The crash caused the death of Juana Lopez-Hernandez, 44, a citizen of Mexico, and caused serious bodily injury to Maria Flores-Moreno, 35, of Jackson, Billhimer said. On July 22, 2022, at approximately 8:20 p.m., Lakewood police responded to the area of South Lake Drive and East Lak…
News
Former NJ Woman Accused In DWI Crash That Killed Bride On Wedding Night
A former New Jersey resident is facing charges in a golf cart crash that killed a bride and injured her groom on their wedding night. Jamie Lee Komoroski, 25, a Hunterdon County native, is being held in a South Carolina jail nearly two weeks after she drunkenly rear-ended the golf cart that 34-year-old Samantha Miller and her husband, Aric Hutchinson, were riding in, in Folly Beach, SC. Police have said Komoroski was in a rental car going 65 mph in a 25 mph zone when she rear-ended the golf cart carrying Miller and Hutchinson, who were being escorted from their wedding party. While still i…
Sports
‘Gonna
F---
ing Regret It’: Bodycam Vid Of Devils Assistant Coach’s DUI Arrest Released
A golf cart, an empty street and an aggressive sheriff’s deputy have produced a viral video of New Jersey Devils Assistant Coach Andrew Brunette being arrested for drunk driving -- on a golf cart. “You f---ing fight me and you’re f---ing gonna regret it,” a combative law enforcement officer in Florida tells Brunette while handcuffing him. The Feb. 1 exchange between the Broward County sheriff’s deputy and the former Florida Panthers head coach was captured in police bodycam video obtained by Fox Sports 640 host Andy Slater and posted via his Slater Scoops podcast. Slater dropped the vide…
Police & Fire
Pair Of DWI Drivers Arrested After Wrong-Way Incidents: South Brunswick PD
Two drunk drivers were arrested after the weekend after wrong-way incidents in South Brunswick, authorities said. A police dashcam captured one of the wrong-way drivers on video. On Friday, Feb, 24, at 8:53 p.m., Yurii Kotiash, a 28-year-old man from Feasterville-Trevose in Bucks County Pennsylvania, was traveling southbound on Route 1, north of Henderson Road, in a 2018 Maserati, when he struck the rear of a 2019 Nissan, driven by a 23-year-old Kendall Park man, which had been stopped in traffic. Kotiash allegedly left the scene of the crash and continued southbound on Route 1, poli…
Police & Fire
Pedestrian Pulls Seriously Injured DWI Driver From Honda After Fiery West Windsor Crash: Police
A pedestrian pulled a seriously injured driver from a Honda just moments before the vehicle burst into flames following a drunken crash in West Windsor Tuesday evening, authorities said. The crash occurred just before a curved section of South Mill Road near the intersection with New Edinburg Road around 7:10 p.m., West Windsor police said. Officers say local resident Christopher F. Howard was heading eastbound in a 2011 Honda Accord when the vehicle crossed the center line, veered off the left side of the roadway, and crossed over New Edinburg Road before crashing into a pine tree. A Good…
Police & Fire
Warren County Man, 38, Nearly Hit Police Officer And Resisted Arrest: Prosecutor
A 38-year-old Warren County man was charged after he nearly crashed into a police officer, resisted arrest, and later turned himself in, authorities announced. Officers in Independence Township stopped a Toyota Tacoma driven by Clinton Ontweka, who ran a stop sign on Route 517 in Allamuchy and nearly hit a police officer on Monday, Aug. 8, Warren County Prosecutor James L. Pfeiffer said in a release with local officials on Wednesday, Sept. 14. Officers determined via sobriety testing that Ontweka, of Hackettstown, was intoxicated, and decided to arrest him before he ran into a nearby cornfi…
News
Off-Duty Local NJ Officer Charged With DWI In Overnight Hit And Run
An off-duty Saddle Brook police officer was drunk when he fled the scene of a utility pole crash a few blocks from his home, authorities charged. Attilio Dente Sr., 39, had to be separated from an unidentified person he was arguing with when township officers showed up at his home around 10 p.m. Friday, Sept. 2, an accident report obtained by Daily Voice says. Moments earlier, a 2013 Chevy Avalanche driven by the five-year department veteran struck a utility pole outside a home on Market Street between Miller and Coger streets, up the block from the local 7-Eleven and the Wine Country liquo…
Police & Fire
State Police Plan Sobriety Checkpoint On Jersey Shore
Don't drink and drive. New Jersey State Police are enforcing that warning with a sobriety checkpoint on the Jersey Shore Heads up if you are driving in the Toms River area on Saturday, Aug. 27.
Police & Fire
Jersey Shore Man Admits Leaving DUI Crash Scene, Assaulting Officer: Prosecutor
A 43-year-old man from Ocean County has pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of a crash with injuries, and other charges, authorities said. On Monday, Aug. 8, John Madden, of Little Egg Harbor Township, entered a guilty plea to knowingly leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident resulting in serious bodily injury and driving under the influence in an April 8, 2020, incident in Long Beach, according to Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer. In a separate unrelated case, Madden also pleaded guilty to aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer. That was in co…
Police & Fire
Jersey Shore Man Was Intoxicated, Unlicensed In Deadly Head-On Crash: Report
A 27-year-old Monmouth County man was driving with a suspended license and was intoxicated when he caused a head-on crash that claimed the life of an 82-year-old man in June, NJ Advance Media reported. Wall resident Nolan T. Dickson was charged with vehicular homicide and causing death while operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license on Monday, Aug. 1, the report says citing Wall Police. Dickson was recklessly driving on Route 35 South when he collided with two other vehicles and killed Brick resident Paul Yuro around 10 a.m. on Monday, June 27, the outlet reports. Click here for t…
Police & Fire
Drunk Driver Hospitalized After Crashing Into Tree In Hunterdon County, Police Say
A 43-year-old man was drunk when he crashed into a tree and suffered serious injuries that required hospitalization, authorities said. Jose l. Borja was behind the wheel of a 2018 Black Infiniti Q50 when he veered off the right side of the road and hit a tree on Petticoat Lane near Herman Thau Road in Clinton Township just after 9:25 p.m. on Sunday, July 31, CTPD Lt. Harry P. Bugal Jr. said in a release. Borja’s vehicle then overturned and re-entered the road, where it came to a stop. Borja suffered serious injuries and was treated at the scene before being taken to the Hunterdon Medical C…
News
Passaic Officer Abandons Seriously Injured Female Passenger In Pre-Dawn DWI Crash: Prosecutor
An off-duty City of Passaic police officer was drunk when he crashed his car and took off on foot, leaving a seriously injured female companion from Clifton behind, authorities said following his arrest. Edgar Delgado, 31, remained held in the Passaic County Jail on a host of charges -- including leaving the scene of a crash, endangering an injured victim and DWI -- following a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Paterson on Saturday. Clifton police found the 28-year-old victim in the vehicle, which had struck an unoccupied car outside the Passaic Metal & Building …
Police & Fire
DUI Jersey Shore Driver Was Going 90 MPH In Fatal Head-On Crash: Prosecutor
A 20-year-old Lakewood man was driving drunk at 90 mph when he crashed head-on killing a passenger in the other car, authorities said. Mordechai Berkowitz, was charged with aggravated manslaughter, vehicular homicide and assault by auto in the July 22 crash that killed Mexican national Juana Lopez-Hernandez, 44, according to Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer. Berkowitz also was charged with the motor vehicle offenses of driving while intoxicated, speeding, reckless driving and failure to maintain a lane, Billhimer said. Berkowitz was heading east on South Lake Drive in…
Police & Fire
Driver, 67, Dies Of Injuries From South Jersey DUI Crash: State Police
A 67-year-old driver from Camden County has died of injuries from a head-on crash involving a driver under the influence, authorities said. Jeffery Koltys, of Runnemede, was exiting Route 55 northbound in Deptford Township, Gloucester County, at the interchange with Route 47/Delsea Drive at 1:48 p.m. on May 2 when the fatal crash occurred, according to a New Jersey State Police spokeswoman. Koltys' Hyundai collided with a Mustang traveling the wrong way on Exit Ramp 56B, Trooper Brandi Slota said. Both vehicles traveled off the roadway into the grass area that separates the exit and e…
News
Pre-Dawn DWI Driver Registers .25 BAC In Fiery Garbage Truck Crash
A drunk driver whose car burst into flames after slamming into a garbage truck overnight in Emerson registered a preliminary blood-alcohol level more than three times the legal limit, authorities said. The 41-year-old Paterson driver told police he was heading home from work when his Nissan Altima slammed into the driver's side of the truck outside the Old Hook Farm on Old Hook Road at 4:15 a.m. Friday, April 22, Police Chief Michael Mazzeo said. The Altima's engine ignited, and flames quickly spread to the car's cabin and onto the truck, the chief said. The truck driver was OK, but the in…
Police & Fire
2-Car Crash Shuts Down Route 22, Damages Bridge
UPDATE: A driver from Pennsylvania was more than three times the legal BAC limit when she crashed into a flatbed tow truck and caused serious damage to a bridge in Warren County, authorities said. ---------------------------------- A two-car crash brought traffic to a halt on Route 22 and damaged a bridge in the Phillipsburg area Thursday afternoon, authorities said. The Lopatcong Township Fire Company responded to the crash in the westbound lanes on the bridge passing over Route 57 around 1:30 p.m., the department said. Emergency crews prevented an electrical fire by removing the batter…
Police & Fire
Car Crashes Into Home On Jersey Shore, Driver Charged With DWI: Police
UPDATED: A vehicle crashed into a home in Monmouth County causing extensive damage, authorities said. The crash occurred at 1:51 a.m. on Friday, April 8 on the 600 block of Windflower Court in the Morganville section of Marlboro, police said,. Police arrived and found a white 2021Acura had crashed through the first floor of the residence and caused an approximate 10ft x10ft opening. The homeowners were uninjured and were able to safely exit the residence, police said. Members of the Robertsville Volunteer Fire Company responded to the scene. They assisted with stabilizing&nb…
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